Table 2.

Fibre number, EVLA wavelength, average absorption coefficient, μ _a, of three measurements per fibre, the average value of the layer thickness, , determined from Eq. 3, and the maximal thickness, d _max, determined from two-dimensional OCT images

Fibre number	EVLA wavelength (nm)	µ a (mm−1)	(µm)	d max (µm)
3	810	72	7.6	19
4	810	80	6.8	23
5	810	52	6.3	27
6	810	44	10.5	28
7	810	90	6.2	31
8	810	74	9.9	31
9	940	78	4.6	17
10	940	66	8.8	23
11	940	80	7	25
12	940	82	13.5	36
16	1,470	72	6.9	22
17	1,470	98	4.4	26
19	1,470	52	11.2	28
Average ± SD		72 ± 16	8.0 ± 2.7	26 ± 6